Excuse me? You're being WAAAY out of line... Sir, you're the one stepping on the American flag every time try to enforce your emotional views on abortion or gay marriage or whatever on the rest of the population in this country. The death penalty is a proven failure as a deterrent. I do support it if the criminal chooses it as an option, but it's an evil to put them to death, especially now with DNA evidence and more and more inmates are released and proven innocent. Also, many inmates on death row are mentally challenged. None of them could have chosen to do otherwise in the moment they did something unlawful. It is an unfortunate truth that you or me or anyone could not have acted differently with the precise same backround, environmental cause and effect, genes, and neuron firing in the brain. Capital punishment is wrong regardless of what the person does. They should never be treated cruelly and subjected to unusual punishment...they should be treated civilly and we should try to rehabilitate them if possible. Sweden and Denmark has a far more successful prison system than we do.